A great read on Wallace, and might make some look different at the situation...

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I don't want Wallace for an average of 10 mil / year, or even 9 mil / year.

I MIGHT consider 8 mil / year and that is a huge MIGHT.

He might get a lot of money from another franchise. Good for him. I just hope it's not with the Steelers.

That is what the Steelers offered at about $8 to start and going up. The Wallace Fan Club wants to forget that the Steelers are pretty good at this stuff and the vast majority of the time they usually have the value of a player pegged exactly where it should be. Let the other teams be stupid and overpay.

I trust the front office will get this all right in the long term. If they decided to part ways with Wallace they have a plan.

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The fact that this article refuses to mention that the team offered a significant long-term contract shows the writer's bias. It would be one thing if he had stated that "they made an offer, but Wallace considered it to be too low", but to ignore it shows a skew, therefore the entire article lacks trust.

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As long as Antonio Brown stays away from significant injury, which is true for every player in the NFL, he won't become a bad player. He has already proven to be a tireless effort player, with sticky fingers, for the most part. The players who decline are the ones who don't invest the energy to work on their craft. Brown will only improve because he is a dedicated worker. The Steelers were around him long enough see that.

As for the money is everything argument, (If you can get 20K more somewhere else, you are stoopid if you don't go for it). I don't place as much emphasis on money as that. There are many other factors that determine quality of life, IMO, than the digits in the bank book. The difference between 8 million or 10 million to Mike Wallace, or anyone I think, is meaningless in terms of quality of life. With either sum, you have more than enough to meet basic needs and then the excess, you play with. He probably doesn't have any plans for the money, so he may just throw away on bad investments, gambling, material things that he rarely uses or enjoys. More money like that is solely for the momentary ego gratification of knowing someone valued you enough to give it to you. After that, the feeling and meaning of it is over.

Going from low-middle class to upper middle class is more significant than the move from wealthy to a bit more wealthy.

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Their stats over the last 2 years in which Wallace was a starterWallace 31 games 136-2029-16tdBrown 29 games 135-1895-7td 1td return

Brown missed 3 games last year and part of another and had 3 less TD's than Wallace
Pretty even in everything except TDs scored from 2011 where Mike wins out 8-2
Brown also seems to have a great work ethic and wants to be in Pittsburgh
Just saying

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I wish people would/could leave politics out of a Steelers Football Forum.

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Originally Posted by pittpete

Their stats over the last 2 years in which Wallace was a starterWallace 31 games 136-2029-16tdBrown 29 games 135-1895-7td 1td return

Brown missed 3 games last year and part of another and had 3 less TD's than Wallace
Pretty even in everything except TDs scored from 2011 where Mike wins out 8-2
Brown also seems to have a great work ethic and wants to be in Pittsburgh
Just saying